by Barbara G. Tarn Next year I’ll celebrate 40 years of stories. I stopped counting before the indie revolution and I was already over 500 titles, with less than 10 unfinished. Before you ask: yes, they suck. No, I will never publish most of those stories, although I did throw the very first in a couple of books, because I
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In Episode 92, Mark Lefebvre interviews Charles de Lint, who is the author of more than seventy books. Renowned as one of the trailblazers of the modern fantasy genre, Charles is the recipient of the World Fantasy, Aurora, Sunburst, and White Pine awards, among others. De Lint is a poet, folklorist, artist, songwriter and performer. He has written critical essays,
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[The following is an excerpt from the book Maim Your Characters by Samantha Keel] which originally appeared on ScriptMedic: A Medical Consultant for Writers] An injury plot works on one very simple three-part platform: A character gets hurt. (The Beginning) That character gets treatment and begins to feel better, but must navigate the world in a state of partial
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by Leah Thurber Being a writer, enjoying what you do and making a profit while doing it is one of the best feelings in the world. That is why more and more young and ambitious people tend to pick up their pens and start either writing short novels or texts or try their hands at freelancing. Most people fail to
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This piece is excerpted from Stop Worrying; Start Writing: How To Overcome Fear, Self-Doubt and Procrastination by Sarah Painter You Can Do This I am going to give you a permission slip. It reads: ‘You are a writer.’ So many of us are waiting to be ‘allowed’ to call ourselves writers or to put pen to paper. If we already
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